“ChinAI #350: Around the Horn (24th episode)” by Jeffrey Ding

Featured links

• ChinAI #342
• China is stirring up an OpenClaw tempest
• MiniMax hasn’t gone crazy, the market has gone crazy
• I waited 100+ days for a full-time job at a big tech firm
• Don’t get fooled by those Spring Festival Gala robots
• AI Signboards in a County Town
• A midnight earthquake for Alibaba Qwen, Junyang Lin steps down
• CAICT launches its first batch of AI Safety/Security Assessments of 2026
• The 2025 Annual Chinese Large Model Benchmark Evaluation report is out!
• ChinAI #324
• Zhihu founder Zhou Yuan proposes “AI Comic Book Infringement Speed ​​Far Exceeds Rights Protection; A Fast-Track Green Channel Should Be Established”
• Comparing financials: market remains calm on Cambricon despite profits; MetaX and Moore Threads lack large orders
• ChinAI
• Substack post
• DeepInfra
• Cerebras
• OpenRouter

Thank you for reading and engaging

These are Jeff Ding's (sometimes) weekly translations of Chinese-language musings on AI and related topics. Jeff is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University.

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First published:
March 9th, 2026

Source:
https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-350-around-the-horn-24th-episode

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